The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-11-16
The Bodies Of the kxscstsd Ealafocigrs Laid
10 Rsst at Waldhsim.
An Immense FhioDg Gathers 10 VIEW tie
lsng Punsral Procession.
The Line Of March Takes the fhroDg Past
the Scene Of the Massacre.
Scenes at the Railroad DepOt-On the Way
to the Cemetery-At the Grave-Capt.
Black speaks-Other Remarks.


after mile in gloom, close down to the
cold fat earth, five unseen, soulless figures
fleeing in death as from the one great be-
ing for whom alone there can be no law,
foun hiding place to night in the dark
ness at the most desolate spot on the prai-
rie's wide expanse. The FIVE CHASTITY fig
ures were the symbols of attempted de-
Anarchists-Spies, Parsons Fischer, En-
gel, and Louis Lingg. Probably half a
million people in the city OF their terri
bic crime saw the last public preparations
ior the final fight to the tomb. Scarcely
more than half the number expected,
seven thousand men and two hundred
and fifty women, aided in the city by
forming in procession behind them. Ten
thousand people were present in the bar
est, emptlest graveyard adjacent to Chi
cago, when the corpses at length were
hidden. Muttered curses and bitter MUIR
muTs, and cry of Throttle the law"
accompanied the parting words spoken
over the FIVE lifeless bodies.
THE PROCESSION STARTS.
1t was almost to second the exact time
that forty-eight hours before the scaffold
drop fell with August Spies and his com.
rades, that to-day the blackest of heArses
drew up at the door of his relatives. More
peculiar still was the fact that the hearse
ment corresponding to the announcement
at the gsllows that Spies had ceased to
breathe. This was the beginning of the
obsequies. The scene is at the extreme
northwestern corner of the city and the
route taken resembled nothing SO much
q monster black snake stretching right to
the center of Chicago and protrudlng out
and beyond the furthest southwestern an
gle. The lines of blackDess were formed
OF human beings wedged together into al
most q single continuous whole.
Of from Milwaukee avenue, Spies lived
in little CASTS of well-to-do Americans
and Germans, while the others entombed
today had places of abode scattered at
same thoroughfare, but in the midst OF the
most ignorant and uncouth classes of Chi
csgo's foreign-born population.
About 1000 persons, most OF them
neighbors of the Spies, were congregated
on the street and sidewalks of the block in
which Spies lived, when the time tor de-
paIture arrived. As at the other houses
where the Anarchists be dies lay, a con-
slant stream OF mourners or curious sight
seers bad been since almost Daylight,
pouring through the buildings and viewing
the Hvid remains or gazing at the weep
i ing relatives. When the forty-eight
hours anniversary Of the scaffold
drop had come and the sombre hearse was
stan ding patient at the curb, the tall,
stately form Of Captain Black, the Anar-
chis's' chief counsel, was seen stepping out
through the thIoDg at the Spies threshold.
| Supported on his arm and with head pill
| lowed on bis shoulder was clinging girl
/ ish figure, clad in Grape from head to foot
"a picture of utter woe. The face was
| completely yelled from sight. Instantly
the whisper was heard on every side
There she is there's Nina Van Zindt;"
/ C.,sz - 70 - ~ 4,
coffin bad been placed in the hearse that
immt diaie mourners had entered carriages
and five hundred blue -badged turner's had
formed in ranks ahead that the crowd dis
covered its mistake. Calmly seated in the
| first carriage, without one sign of mourn
( ing in ler appearance or a single
trace Of grief in her pale, set face.
The countenance was unmistakably that
OF Spies youthful proxy bride, but 1t had
ness that gave an unlocked for but far
from Tepellant aspect TO one of her years
Aside from this expression the features
wore peculiar yellowish pa]or. 1t may
have been mere fancy OF the observer,
but those who saw the face of Spies as he
stIode TO his place on the gallows cay the
pallor on his countenance then was exact
ly like that to-day on the face of Nina Van
Zsndt. She WAS apparelled in well worn
urtrim med wrap of dark wine-colored or
purple velvet, very simply made dress OF
black silk, and q email, neat, brown feath-
cred bonnet to match the wrap.
While the crowds were recovering from
. their surprise at Miss VapZandt g demeapor
and dress, the black clad girl who had &C.
companled Capt. Black into the same car
risge with Spies proxy wife, threw back
her veil and disclosed the tear-stained fea'
tuers Of the dead mans sister, Gretchen
Alongside CT Miss Van Zandt, and listen
ing eagerly at times to her words of glorif-
cation Of Spies, was the Anarchists aged
mother, There were hard lines in her face
but she seemed to have command of hel
grief. At this moment the mournful music
of dirge away to the front was heard, and
the cortege was on its way to the
grave. Down Milwaukee avenue, between
such multitudes on either side
as never before gathered on those walks
and pavements and at places thronged the
tops OF the houses, the procession
marched more slowly and solemnly than
on Friday when the Anarchists went to
the eallows. 1t took up, with somewhat
similar scenes the body OF Fischer, then
Parsons, and afterward those of Lingg and
| Eneel. With each there was q great &C
CT ssion TO the cortege, and as il proceeded
the masses of on-lookers became still more
dense. The line OF march IL DETECTED
north as much as it was afterward turned
/
cation of the Anarchist gallows, but at
the corner OF Desplaines street there was
quick change of front and the procession
seemed headed direct for the Hay Market
A STRIKING VIEW.
The most striking view of the procession
was obtained at the corner of Lake and
Desplalnes streets, for it brought so vivid
| ly TO mind the scenes Of May 4, 1885, when
the bomb was thrown. It was just 1:45
O'Clock when the head Of the line reached
the spot. At the corner is the saloon and
| hall of Charles Zepf, the Anarchis'. II
, was 10 this saloon that Parsons took bis
wife and children after his speech at the
Haymarket, and where they sat when the
bomb was thrown. Two hundred feet
south OF the corner was the place where
stood the wagon from which Spies and his
| comrades delivered their haranguss
and counseled the throttling of the
law. And here. too, was the al
Law froxn which ha hfsofno